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Angel Jackson didn’t have too many women’s basketball legends to look up to as a young girl playing at the YMCA in Richmond, California. There were stars from Stanford, or Cal, or San Jose State but there wasn’t a WNBA team or central gathering place to go see pro hoopers just like her.

Maybe that’s why it took her a second to really fall in love with the game and not just follow her brother’s lead.

Nowadays, things in the Bay Area are different. The Golden State Valkyries have captured San Francisco and are the WNBA’s standard bearer in the area. The only issue is that not everyone can either make it out to the Chase Center regularly. So, in the East Bay, Angel plies her trade with a league rooted in growing the game to girls like she once was.

“You can have fun with this,” she says over the phone after practice. “You can be loose…and just be in the moment. You don’t have to go anywhere. You can have it in your hometown or in the Bay Area.”

It’s the promise of the Women’s Premier Basketball Association, and why Jackson is right at home, in her home.